- Family relationships, Fathers and daughters, Fiction, Gamblers
So Big - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - the unforgettable story of Selina Peake Dejong, her marriage, widowhood, eventual success as a truck farmer, and of her son, Dirk. In So Big, Ferber simultaneously created a vivid picture of turn-of-the-century Chicago and dealt with the contemporary issues of poverty, Americanization, family tensions, sexism, and success.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Edna Ferber
- First published
- January 1920
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Amereon Ltd, Books On Tape, Start Publishing LLC
- Editions
- 61
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798653384417
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